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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

In Your Face

I
was reading an article (written by an individual who was “kicked
out” of the RyuTe Association). Like so many others, he was
pontificating over how Taika had taught him, the “secrets”
of RyuTe. He further elaborated how Ryukyu Kempo is the (exact)
same as what is being taught in RyuTe. These are both commonly made
statements (at least by individual's who were kicked-out of
the RyuTe Association). And equally as common, is the fact that
neither is (in any way) accurate, or truthful.

This
is the equivalent of saying “All martial arts systems are the
same”. In many general aspects this could be considered
truthful, but when the details are (actually) compared, the
differences become readily apparent.

When
Taika began teaching his system, the martial arts industry was
(already) in a routine of mundane manners of practice. These usually
amounted to either no kata practice at all (claiming it
was only “traditional”) or kata without any useful
application, and an increased focus being made upon “sparring”.
Neither of which served any purpose for a student's Life
Protection abilities.

It
was at this time (late 70's, early 80's) that Taika began having
seminars to demonstrate his interpretations of kata, and to
illustrate how other systems had been missing (in his
opinion, LOL) the obvious purposes of kata.

During
that time, It was common for Taika to award a yudansha rank to new
students who claimed that they wanted to study from him (usually
one-level above their ranking in their prior system).
Unfortunately, many Persons were commonly being awarded rank levels
that were (far) beyond what their abilities actually
were. Those same individual's rarely continued any affiliation
(much less study) with Taika. That fact, in addition to a
desire to disassociate himself with the Ryukyu Kempo name (and
those individual's), led to his decision to change the name to
RyuTe and to begin teaching “his” system (instead of the generic
“kempo”).

Many
of the instructor's who remained in the RyuTe system had attained
their (original) yudansha ranking in their prior system. They
hadn't learned the required (basic) motions in the same manner
that they should have, and were now
supposed to be, being taught (to their student's). Many
of these instructor's continued to teach motions the same way,
as they always had (incorrectly), and didn't seem to realize
it.

Many
continued teaching the same “sport” kicks and applications
as they always had, and didn't seem to notice how hypocritical
those teachings actually were. It's those individual's who did
so, that make these completely inaccurate claims (about Ryukyu
Kempo being the same as RyuTe).

Because
of this instructional gap, there is often a degree of
inconsistency between what is taught to students at different
levels of learning, and/or between different instructor's. If an
instructor hasn't weeded-out those irrelevant
motions/techniques, then students may become confused from
what's being taught.

I've
heard instructor's who (want to) blame Taika for these
discrepancy’s in the manner's of a technique's execution (been
there, done that). Having personal access to a (Large) collection of
video footage of Taika, when confronted with claims of “Taika
showed it different”, I can pull up multiple examples of him
doing exactly what he say's you should be doing (even
though he may of not said so at the time). Taika teaches by
example, if you ain't paying attention, that's not
his fault (so don't blame him).

Over
the years I've encountered instructor's who've chosen to limit (if
not restrict) what is shown to their student's. I've never
understood this mentality. Some claim it's done for safety
concerns, and some over reasons of student maturity. I find
neither of those “reasons” to be justifiable for limiting a
student's level of knowledge. Properly applied instructional methods
will negate any detrimental tendency's in either of these area's of
concern.

Most
of those instructor's (within the association) that fell into that
category, are no longer within the association. When Taika does
actually “pass-away”, I'm sure that every Low-life martial
art's wanna-be on the planet, will crawl out from what-ever pile
of shit that they've been living under to claim that “they”
posses the (true) secret teachings of RyuTe and/or
Taika.

Hopefully
there will be (enough, LOL) honest student's of Taika
to dispute all the interloper's who are not who/what
they claim to be. My only concern at present, is that not
everyone (within the association) is even aware of the
reason's why many of these individual's were kicked-out
(and Taika forbids any
public discussion of those reasons).

No
matter, if/when any of
those individual's should make any
“claims”, there is more
than enough evidence
to provide to dispute
their legitimacy (If, they so choose to push the issue, LOL).

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Note* If you have been wondering what motivates me to write so negatively about the TCM moron's and anyone of similar ilk, then please read the following (I found it on Wikipedia, and felt it to be apropos).

The Dunning–Kruger effect.

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the meta cognitive ability to recognize their mistakes”.

“The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority."